Duke Obtains FDA Designation For Pompe Disease Therapy
...afflicts children, Duke officials announced. This designation makes Duke eligible for FDA grants to support a clinicaltrial of the therapy. Duke University Medical Center researchers hope tobegin that trial in 1998. Pompe disease is an incapacitating condition caused by an inherited deficiencyof the enzyme aci...Medicare Approves UM Medical Center For Lung Transplants
...a and Durham, NC. Itis the 24th in the nation. The designation covers patients who need single,double or combined... patient survival rateis 84 percent. "The designation enables us to help more patients, especially those wholive in the Baltimore-Washington area who othe...Targon And Duke Cancer Center Sign $3.75 Million Agreement To Produce Advanced Anti-Cancer Drugs
... The U.S. Food and Drug Administration grants IND designation based on results of pre-clinical research findings; an IND designation permitscommencement of human clinical trials. As part of the agreement, Targon will be granted an ...DDW Studies Present Evidence That Thalomid (Thalidomide) Is Active In Treating Crohn's Disease
...MID (thalidomide) was recently awarded orphan drug designation by the U.S.Food and Drug Administration (FDA). "A...nic agent. Recently,THALOMIDR received orphan drug designation for multiple myeloma and Crohn'sdisease. Thalidomide is contraindicated in pregnant women and women ...ENBREL (Etanercept) Receives FDA Approval For Treatment Of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
...tis in adults. ENBREL has been granted orphan drug designation by the FDA for the treatment ofJRA. Orphan drug designations are given to drugs for the treatment of medicalconditions affecting 200,000 people or less in the United States. ENBREL (etanercept) has been studied in more than 1,000 people wi......mplications." CAMPATH, which received "fast track" designation from the FDA, is expected toundergo a six-month pr...resubmitted. The FDA has also granted Orphan Drug designation to CAMPATH for CLL. "The data from this trial confirm our belief in CAMPATH and provide a strongbas......hreeGenetic Epidemiology Centers in the world. The designation is part of a large-scale plan by Glaxo Wellcome to harness thepower of genetics for drug development and discovery. "Knowing the genes involved in a specific disease will mean that newpharmaceuticals can be targeted to the patients most likely to ben...UCSF Cancer Center joins elite group of National Cancer Institute-designated centers
...nds total $74 million. But the significance of the designation extends beyond funding, UCSF officialssay. It will...class scientists and cliniciansto UCSF. "Achieving designation as a NCI cancer center means that citizens of NorthernCalifornia will have access to the broad spect...Indiana University Cancer Center receives National Cancer Institute designation
...eceived for cancer research projects at IU.The NCI designation places the IU Cancer Center in an elite group of r...ty and region it serves." "An NCI research designation complements our long-standing recognitionas one of the top clinical programs nationally," said Steph...Meharry-Vanderbilt partnership aims to address racial disparity in cancer outcomes
...ides administrative support funding as part of its designation as a National Cancer Institute center. This designation, awarded to only 60 cancer centers throughout the country, recognizes excellence in cancer research, treatment and prevention. The Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is one of a select few NCI-desi...U.S., British scientific societies honor penicillin as International Chemical Landmark
...Landmark at 11a.m. Friday, Nov. 19 in London. The designation takes place 70 years after the discovery of the dr...to the hospital will be reunited in London for the designation of the landmark by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Washington, D.C.-based American Chemical S...UCSF study finds many areas in California have a dentist shortage
...ions identified in the study could be eligible for designation as aDental Health Professional Shortage Area, which means the National HealthService Corp. could place more dentists in those areas, Mertz said. Access to dental services in California has been an issue of increasing concernto federal and state polic...Brain imaging reveals less medication just as effective in treating schizophrenia
...e of four such facilities in that field to receive designation from the World Health Organization as a Centre of Excellence. This study was supported by the Medical Research Council of Canada, the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression and the EJLB Foundation....Experimental drug reverses effects of Fabry disease in mice
...vestigational New Drug approval and orphan disease designation from the Food and Drug Administration prior to the initiation of clinical trials." Fabry disease is called an "orphan disease," because it is so rare. According to Shayman, however, six other lysosomal storage diseases are closely related to Fabry ...... across the United States to receive a grant and a designation as a Public Health Training Center by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "One of the most exciting things about the Public Health Training Center program is that th......er fast-tracked articles are as important as their designation implies, William Ghali and coauthors selected 6 articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine and 6 in The Lancet that were either prereleased on the journal Web site or fast tracked. Twelve "control" articles published in the usual way ...Rush receives Magnet Award for excellence in nursing
...wide, to receive the Excellence in Nursing Service designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANC... and greater cost-efficiency. Rush received Magnet designation after a two-year evaluation process that started with a voluminous application and ended with an exh...One in one hundred babies in the US are involved in a car crash while in the womb
...enters in the United States to receive an official designation as an injury control research center by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....Prostate cancer program at UCLAs Jonsson Cancer Center designated a site of research excellence
... that will kill 30,000 American men this year. The designation as a Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) comes with a five-year, $11.5 million grant to further expand UCLAs renowned prostate cancer program, pulling in researchers and clinicians from a variety of disciplines to work together to unco......McConnell (R-Ky.), university officials said. "The designation means that the university will be on the front lines in protecting our communities," McConnell said. Other CDC-designed Centers for Health Preparedness are located at Dartmouth Medical School, Saint Louis University School of Public Health, Johns Hop...